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Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs.
Photo: Justin Hall, © 2002.
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tech news
Whether they serve as personal travelogues, political weapons or media outlets on the go, moblogs take the amateur journalism of weblogs into the field.
by Lisa Le Fevre | 05.02.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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op ed
Want targeted journalism with expertise? "Tamagotchi journalism" is the answer.
Rebecca Fox | 05.05.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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digital culture
Has the blog-enabled experiment in collaborative writing produced a "fascinating new mutant journalism," as one pundit believes? Or is it 90% schlock? Or both?
Steve Bryant | 05.04.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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net art
By giving artists' residencies to 18 School of Visual Arts students, the Manhattan gallery Engine 27 is giving sound art a chance to be heard.
Lisa Le Fevre | 05.04.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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digital culture
Experts say there isn't a single anti-spam law on the books that works, but Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig is betting his job that a new law will. Declan McCullagh will be the judge of that.
Steve Bryant | 05.04.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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e-business
Labor activists are fighting fire with fire, using the World Wide Web to battle globalization, which they believe is threatening America's labor unions.
Stefan Cornibert | 05.03.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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e-business
Is the Net a hospitable place for online journalism? How can online publications make a profit? ReadMe asks the experts.
Ilaria Mignatti | 05.02.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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e-business
When the e-biz magazine Red Herring ceased publication, it marked the end of the dot-com glory days. Is the New Economy over, or will it rise again?
Pauline Karakat | 05.02.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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net art
ReadMe takes a guided tour of "Vectors," the first true retrospective of digital art, with some of the medium's leading lights and most insightful critics.
Dan Reiss | 05.02.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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net art
With installations that make Swiss cheese of the Whitney's walls, "Scanning: The Aberrant Architecture of Diller+Scofidio" undoes architecture as we expect it.
Rebecca Fox | 04.28.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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digital culture
Detractors may dismiss Internet Addiction as science fiction, but Dr. Hilarie Cash claims her Net-addicted patients are "losing their jobs and marriages [and] dropping out of college."
Dan Reiss | 04.25.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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net art
If humans make robots, and robots make art, who is the ultimate creator of the artwork?
Ilaria Mignatti | 04.24.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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digital culture
In Part 1 of ReadMe's feature on Web visionary and Emergence author Steven Johnson, Johnson shares his thoughts on how---and why---users build online communities.
Lisa Le Fevre | 04.24.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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tech news
In Part 2 of ReadMe's feature on Web visionary Steven Johnson, Johnson talks about his big plans for the humble hyperlink. For starters, he thinks it should get smart and grow some attitude.
Dan Reiss | 04.24.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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net art
Finishing his graduate art thesis at NYU and facing the prospect of earning a living as a video artist, Cris Moss is at heart still an eight-year-old boy who was fascinated by moving images.
Cyrus Shahmir | 04.23.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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media
The second Persian Gulf war was a media war as well as a shooting war, and the Internet has been one of its most hotly contested battlegrounds.
Pauline Karakat | 04.22.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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digital culture
Kevin McMahon's documentary film, McLuhan's Wake, examines the meteoric rise, fall, and resurrection of the misunderstood media theorist.
Pauline Karakat | 04.22.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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e-business
Joshua Fouts, editor of the Online Journalism Review, wonders if Web journalism will run out of gas before it gets to the promised land: a brighter tomorrow, where webzines actually make buck.
Xia Tian | 04.21.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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digital culture
By suing college students who trade pirated songs on the Web, the music industry is making the point that "p2p" (peer-to-peer) file-swapping is bad for business and, if they catch you, hazardous to your financial health. P2p expert Siva Vaidhyanathan wonders if the issues are so cut and dried.
Cyrus Shahmir | 04.21.2003 ReadMe 4.2
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media
Independent journalist Chris Allbritton becomes the first weblogger to report the war live, on the ground, from Iraq.
Steve Bryant | 04.11.2003 ReadMe 4.1
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digital culture
Salon.com videogame pundit Wagner James Au is taking on the corporate hordes of hackneyed game-making, one keystroke at a time.
Dan Reiss | 04.11.2003 ReadMe 4.1
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tech news
Dirck Halstead, founder of digitaljournalist.org, on how digital technology is radically reshaping the role of the wartime photojournalist.
Stefan Cornibert | 04.04.2003 ReadMe 4.1
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digital culture
Cyberpundit Clay Shirky on social networks, online bottom-feeders, and that radical technology, the table.
Lisa Le Fevre | 04.02.2003 ReadMe 4.1
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digital culture
California courts have reopened the debate over vote-swapping websites. To the activists at votexchange2000.com, the future of online democracy hangs in the balance.
Stefan Cornibert | 03.05.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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tech news
Why did Google buy Pyra, whose Blogger software launched a thousand weblogs? Could blogs, rich in connections to other sites, be the "killer app"?
Steve Bryant | 03.05.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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digital culture
College student/sex activist Lux Nightmare talks dirty about her mission to legitimize online smut.
Dan Reiss | 03.05.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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tech news
Long a dark continent in the fiber-optic sense, Africa is scrambling to close the technology---and techno-literacy---gap. Intriguingly, almost half its information-technology students are women.
Pauline Karakat | 03.05.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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digital culture
With the recent "virtual march" on Washington, antiwar mobilizers have entered a new phase in online activism. MoveOn.org is leading the way.
Lisa Le Fevre | 03.05.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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tech news
Screen-readers and Braille displays make computers accessible to the blind, but navigating the Web is still a challenge for the blind and the visually impaired.
Ilaria Mignatti | 03.05.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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e-business
Branding consultants to companies seeking identity in a post dot-com economy: Less flash. Deeper meaning. And "e-" and "i-" names are over.
Rebecca Fox | 03.04.2003 ReadMe 4.0
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